Joseph lewis jones



UNITED STATES .lOSEPl-l LEWVIS JONES, 0F UTIOA, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR'OF"ONE-llALF-Tid PATENT Orricn.

FOSTER BROTHERS, OFSAME PLACE.

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,100, dated July 2, 1889.

Application filed November 11,:l887. Serial No. 254,980. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH LEWIS J ONES, of Utiea, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Olothes-Driers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to clothes driers or racks, and more particularly to that class in which the device is adapted to be applied to the wall of a room or house.

The object of my presentinvention is to provide a simple and neat clothes drier or rack, and one which shall be cheap to manufacture and capable of being stored into compact shape for transportation.

A further object is to so construct the device that the bars thereof which support the clothes can be arranged one above the other in such a manner that the clothes on one bar will not interfere with similar articles placed on other bars.

A further object is to construct the several parts of the device so that it can be adapted to support rods of considerable length, and thus accommodate a large amount of clothes, or be so reduced in size as to act simply as a towel-rack, as desired.

WVith these objects in view my invention consists in the peculiar construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as will behereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device, showing one of the supporting-rods removed. Fig. 2 is a detached view of one of the supporting-brackets. Fig. 3 is a view of a modification of supporting-brackets.

A A indicate two vertical bars or strips, which are provided with suitable perforations between their ends, through which screws or other fastening devices are adapted to be passed to secure these bars or strips to the wall of the room or house. The bars or strips A are each furnished with a series of plates to, having perforations 1) near their ends for the reception of screws or nails, by which they are securely attached to the said bars or strips. The

plates a are provided with two outwardly-projecting ears or bosses 0, located, preferably, at points between the perforations h of said plates and made with perforations (Z for the .reception of bracket-arms B. These perfobent at right angles to their bodies to form downwardly-extending portions 2, and dowelpins f, the portion 6 being bent in an opposite direction to the dowel-pins f, as shown in Fig. 2, to form depending journals. The portion e of these rods B is of sufficient length to extend through both perforations (Z of bosses c, and are adapted to turn therein to permit the bracket-arms to have a swinging movement, for a purpose that will be explained.

A series of horizontal clothes-supporting bars 0, of wood or other suitable material, are provided 011 one edge with sockets g near their ends, these sockets being adapted to receive the dowel-pins of the bracket-arms B, upon which latter the bars 0 are loosely supported.

From this construction it will be seen that the bracket-arms B may be swung on their bearings, and by their loose connection with the cross-bars C these bars may be entirely removed, swung or adjusted nearer to or farther from the wall, as occasion may require.

By adjusting the cross-bars O at different distances from the wall clothes or other articles may be placed upon them without the articles placed on one bar being liable to come into contact with articles upon other bars;

It is evident that the vertical bars A, carrying the bracket-arms B, may be placed at different distances apart, and that supportingrods 0 of different length can be employed, thus adapting the device to support a large number of clothes, or be used simply as a towel-rack, as desired.

Slight changes might be made in the con- Ice cross-bars each loosely supported upon the upwardly-turned ends of a pair of arms, the said cross-bars being in different horizontal planes, whereby each bar can be moved toward or away from the wall or other support independently of the other bars, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

J. LEWVIS JONES.

WVitnesses:

OSCAR S. FOSTER, H. D. PITCHER. 

